A New York Times article on girls and the Internet (definitely check it out).
A fun compendium of social media in the 1990s vs. now.
Local article about third graders creating a class newspaper.
A New York Times story on the new manga Bible version. And here's some more about manga mashed up with the Bible.
A story from the Detroit Free Press about playing Guitar Hero in the library.
How to make your browser work like a teleprompter.
Blog post on Infomancy about gaming and libraries.
A New York Times article about product placement in books for young people.
FCC Kids' Zone.
Provocative new documentary film about high school in the US, China, and India.
--Carol
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Wow - I just posted that Pew article to our class moodle, and had planned to write something for the blog about it, but I can see I definitely slept too late. :)
Each time we read about gaming in libraries, I wonder about how many school libraries are supporting this idea. The draw for kids is apparent, yet with the expensive involved and the PR needed to connect gaming to the curriculum, I wonder whether any school libraries purchase games. We have a gamers club that meets after school and they bring their own games and equipment. Does anyone know of a school library buying video games?
One of my students just brought in the Acts of the Apostles in manga. He really liked to point out all the "gross pictures." (I can't remember exactly what...maybe stoning or something.) Such a violent book...
I think I mentioned in class that I'm working on some collection development for our church library. I'm thinking about getting that Manga Bible, though I want to wait and see how much the kids are into that format first. I'm not actually bothered by it depicting violent scenes. I wouldn't want to discuss why they're in there and how they handle them, but frankly the Bible is a violent book.
If anything, I think the Manga Bible could be an excellent discussion starter about the sorts of violent norms and laws you see in the Bible. Kids are watching the movie 300 and some churches have promoted Gibson's Passion of the Christ, so it wouldnt' be the first time kids are exposed to exaggerated visual violence in history and the Bible.
My brothers were fascinated by Foxe's Book of Martyrs as teens and shared it with many of their friends. Plenty of gruesome violence in that one too. It did disturb my mother a bit that they were so into it, but I think she preferred to have them thinking about violence in the context of history and belief than in the context of a slasher film.
On a personal level, I'm totally squicked out by visual violence. I haven't seen Gibson's movie and have no desire to see it even if many people I know found it very moving. I hate gory stuff. But as "a librarian," even for my church library, I think violence is an important issue to deal with. I'd want this bible just as much as I'd want that idiotic Revolve girl's "magazine" new testament so we could talk about commercial media crap.
Ah phooey! Over-editing ruined yet another sentence - the last line of my first paragraph there should start "I would want to discuss"...
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